Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at s√=7TeV with the ATLAS detector
Aaboud, Morad; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad; Abdallah, Jalal; Abdinov, Ovsat Bahram oglu; Abeloos, Baptiste; Abidi, Syed Haider; AbouZeid, Hass; Abraham, Nadine L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Buanes, Trygve; Dale, Ørjan; Eigen, Gerald; Liebig, Wolfgang; Lipniacka, Anna; Martin dit Latour, Bertrand; Mæland, Steffen; Smestad, Lillian; Stugu, Bjarne; Yang, Zongchang; Zalieckas, Justas; Bugge, Magnar Kopangen; Cameron, David Gordon; Catmore, James Richard; Feigl, Simon; Franconi, Laura; Garonne, Vincent; Gjelsten, Børge Kile; Gramstad, Eirik; Morisbak, Vanja; Nilsen, Jon Kerr; Ould-Saada, Farid; Raddum, Silje Hattrem; Read, Alexander Lincoln; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Serfon, Cédric; Stapnes, Steinar; Strandlie, Are; Abreu, Rômulo F.; Abulaiti, Yiming; Acharya, Bobby S.; Adachi, Shunsuke; Adamczyk, Leszek; Adams, David; Adelman, Jareed; Adersberger, Michael; Adye, Tim; Affolder, Anthony Allen; Agatonovic-Jovin, Tatjana; ATLAS, Collaboration
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2018-02-06Metadata
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4Abstract
A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented based on proton–proton collision data recorded in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and corresponding to 4.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The selected data sample consists of 7.8×106 candidates in the 𝑊→𝜇𝜈 channel and 5.9×106 candidates in the 𝑊→𝑒𝜈 channel. The W-boson mass is obtained from template fits to the reconstructed distributions of the charged lepton transverse momentum and of the W boson transverse mass in the electron and muon decay channels, yielding 𝑚𝑊=80370=80370±7 (stat.)±11(exp. syst.)±14 (mod. syst.) MeV±19MeV, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second corresponds to the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third to the physics-modelling systematic uncertainty. A measurement of the mass difference between the 𝑊+ and 𝑊− bosons yields 𝑚𝑊+−𝑚𝑊−=−29±28 MeV.